Lott is toast. Just reading the links on Instapundit and Best of the Web, makes it clear that this is a feeding frenzy. The blood is in the water. It appears that Lott has played too close to the edge of the line between conservative and right wing white supremacist for too long, and hasn't been called to account. He has a safe Senate seat, just like Robert Byrd, and so his party hasn't been too careful about examining his pedigree. Now he's turned radioactive and Republicans are terrified that he'll ruin their victory.

At this point, the best thing he could do would be to resign and go back to just being a reliable vote. I hate to see a person condemned for a thoughtless remark, but the evidence is coming in now that this wasn't just a slip of the tongue, but more a glimpse behind the mask and the hairspray.


I wonder what it would be like to grow up in the South during his lifetime. I think it would be pretty hard to learn to hate your parents and their generation, or to continute to love and respect them, but never let on in public.